While telling Marge of a prank he’s planning, Homer explains to his wife he and friend Carl are going to “Arnold Palmer” Lenny by shooting him with water guns full of iced tea and lemonade. Marge doesn’t understand, so Homer tells her, “Arnold Palmer was a golfer” who “made up this drink where it’s not a full glass of lemonade or a full glass of iced tea.” The joke was on Homer because he’s the one who ended up later getting soaked by both Lenny and Carl....

Building on the award-winning journalism of The Sporting News, you’ll get all you need to know in one handy, bite-sized podcast. The Sporting News 7 is a unique take on the day’s biggest talking points in sports, and you can find it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Here are the seven stories you’ll hear about on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022: NFL: Browns are set to play Deshaun Watson against Jacksonville despite impending ban NFL: Tua Tagovailoa shuts out the “noise” around Miami’s tampering following training session with Tom Brady MLB: Tigers fire GM Al Avila, Braves’ Vaughn Grissom homers out of Fenway Park in major league debut GOLF: Rory McIlroy pleased the courts have blocked three LIV rebels from playing in this week’s FedEx Cup playoffs TENNIS: Serena Williams loses in second round in Toronto, Nick Kyrgios beats world No....

Building on the award-winning journalism of The Sporting News, you’ll get all you need to know in one handy, bite-sized podcast. The Sporting News 7 is a unique take on the day’s biggest talking points in sports, and you can find it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Here are the seven stories you’ll hear about on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022: NFL: Kareem Hunt has trade request turned down by the Browns NCAAF: Cale Gundy quits after using offensive word during a video session MLB: Twins manager Rocco Baldelli ejected for reacting to “embarrassing and pathetic” call in loss to the Blue Jays WNBA: Sue Bird given send-off in final regular-season home game in Seattle NASCAR: Kevin Harvick snaps 65-race winless streak with win in Michigan GOLF: Kim Joohyung becomes second-youngest PGA Tour winner since WWII, Ashleigh Buhai wins the Women’s Open Championship SOCCER: Messi scores incredible bicycle kick in season opener for PSG, Manchester United lose but Erling Haaland scores twice as Manchester City get off to a perfect start in the Premier League

For a rundown of those stories and more, check out The Sporting News 7, a podcast that brings you the seven biggest sports stories in seven minutes at 7 a.m. ET every weekday. Building on the award-winning journalism of The Sporting News, you’ll get all you need to know in one handy, bite-sized podcast hosted by Demetria Obilor. The Sporting News 7 is a unique take on the day’s biggest talking points in sports, and you can find it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts....

NEWSWEEK: What do you think about Aghajari’s death sentence? SHAMSOLVAEZIN: This is a political sentence and not a result of legal procedures. Many decisions made by the judiciary in the past few years have been more political than legal. Whenever the conservatives face a political challenge and see themselves in a weak position, they do something like this to compensate for their deficiencies. But this time their decision has backfired, and we are witnessing their retreat after negative reactions to the sentence....

World-record signing Neymar bagged a brace and Cavani was also on target as PSG crushed Bordeaux 6-2 in Paris on Saturday. Nice 8/1 to beat Marseille 1-0 The pair dispelled rift rumours after an on-field disagreement over penalty-taking duties against Lyon a fortnight ago, helping PSG to their most prolific first half in Ligue 1 history, having scored five goals in the opening period. Speaking about Neymar and Cavani post-match, Mbappe – who completed the scoring for PSG approaching the hour-mark in the French capital – said: “It’s easy to play with players like that [Cavani and Neymar]....

In a viral post published to Reddit’s “AmITheA**hole” forum, a user by the name of u/throwra2433 prefaced the tale by saying in elementary school, they were the kid that would “disrupt class often.” For them to learn a lesson, their mother signed them up for a tutor by the name of “Abby.” The user’s older brother “John” began talking to Abby and they became close and eventually started dating. Since Abby still hung out at their house, the user and Abby became close as well....

The slasher film follows a group of LGBTQ+ teens forced to go to a gay conversion camp led by Kevin Bacon’s Owen Whistler, who is more menacing than first meets the eye. Logan spoke to Newsweek along with lead star Theo Germaine, who portrays nonbinary transgender teen Jordan, and they talked about how much they appreciated the “beautiful mix of scary and empowerment” in their film. Subverting the Slasher Movie Tropes Logan reflected on making a horror film that would be seen as empowering to the LGBTQ+ community....

Episode 3 of the Netflix documentary looks into the disappearance of Baskin’s husband Don Lewis, who Maldonado-Passage alleges was killed by Baskin and fed to her tigers, allegations which she denies. Though Tiger King does give time to Baskin to deny these allegations, in a 3,000 word blog post of her Big Cat Rescue site she hits out at the documentary for the episode and its recounting of the allegation....

In this Olympic year of comebacks, theirs ranks as arguably the most unlikely. Torvill, 36, and Dean, 35, will be the two oldest figure skaters competing. With four world championships, and Olympic medal and 10 years of lucrative professional tours behind them, why bother? “We’ve never really hit our peak,” says Torvill. “This gives us a chance to finish on a high.” This isn’t a comeback because, she says, “we never really went away....

Get odds on Chelsea-Burnley Batshuayi was on top form as his two goals helped inflict a painful 3-0 defeat on Arsenal during the week. After a difficult debut season in the Premier League, the pair of stunners will give the Belgian added confidence going into the new campaign. He might also earn an upgrade on FIFA 18, if EA Sports heed the message left on Twitter. “Upgrade needed bro,” he pleaded, attaching as evidence his double against the Gunners in a bid to improve his stats....

The champions are eight points shy of league-leaders Barcelona following a 2-1 upset at promoted Girona on Sunday. Real Madrid 23/20 to beat Spurs Isco opened the scoring with his third goal of the season, but the 12th-minute strike was not enough to prevent the end of a record run of 13 straight away league wins. Despite the setback, the 25-year-old insists Los Blancos are not a spent force....

The Camp Nou side were desperate to land the 25-year-old Brazil international in the summer window, with Coutinho himself attempting to force a deal through by telling the Reds he wanted to leave. Coutinho 23/10 to score Saturday A transfer failed to materialise, however, with Liverpool instantly dismissing all offers from Barca before the end of the transfer deadline. Barca director Albert Soler later revealed that Liverpool had requested €200 million for the diminutive playmaker, just short of what Neymar joined Paris Saint-Germain for weeks earlier....

Goals from Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez against Swansea City sealed a fourth successive league win for the Red Devils - a result that leaves them two points ahead of third-placed Liverpool with a game in hand in the race to finish as runners-up behind Manchester City. Despite that, Mourinho’s tactics have been criticised throughout the campaign, with some pundits claiming both Liverpool and Tottenham are better sides. But given his side’s consistency, the former Chelsea boss has refuted those claims ahead of next week’s derby with City at the Etihad Stadium....

Leaders Monaco narrowly avoided defeat versus Dijon on Saturday, playing just three days after beating Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the Champions League. Second-half goals from Nabil Dirar and Radamel Falcao saw Leonardo Jardim’s side come from behind for a 2-1 victory to stay three points clear of PSG at the Ligue 1 summit. Verratti’s PSG team-mates With Monaco still battling for silverware on three fronts, it has been suggested their busy schedule could prove to be an advantage for PSG....

Spurs held Madrid to a 1-1 draw in the Champions League on Tuesday to extend their unbeaten run in all competitions to 10 matches. But some had their doubts over whether that would be possible after seeing the XI named by Pochettino. “It was amazing because some people very close to us said, ‘Can we be honest with you?’ I said, ‘Yes’. They said, ‘When we saw the starting XI… what the f***?...

Even as a teenager in Barcelona 15 years ago, the Rosario native was already being dubbed a possible successor to Argentina’s legendary No.10, one Diego Armando Maradona. He was the latest of a string of promising talents to bear the burden of expectation as the ‘New Maradona’; a list that goes all the way back to 1994 and the star’s substitute in the World Cup following his infamous positive doping test, Ariel Ortega....

Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as the marsh girl, Kya Clark, Where the Crawdads Sing tells a story of love, murder, bravery, isolation, resilience and more. The movie has a whole host of women at the helm. It’s directed by First Match’s Olivia Newman, and Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine backed the project, with Witherspoon serving as an executive producer. To top it all off, in March 2022, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Taylor Swift announced she had penned the song “Carolina” for the Where The Crawdads Sing end credits song....

Titled As You Wish, the new EP features 7 new songs, including the title track “이루리” (“As You Wish”) themed around “turning your imagination into reality” and is “a romance fantasy for girls as they wish,” according to a statement on the website of Starship Entertainment, the management company of WJSN. The new album and “As You Wish” music video was unveiled on Tuesday (6 p.m. Korean Standard Time) in a post on WJSN’s official Twitter account....